{"id":971338,"date":"2025-11-03T08:40:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T03:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=971338"},"modified":"2025-11-03T09:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T03:32:30","slug":"h-1b-and-l-1-visa-programs-targeted-as-us-lawmakers-move-to-close-loopholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/03\/h-1b-and-l-1-visa-programs-targeted-as-us-lawmakers-move-to-close-loopholes\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B and L-1 visa programs targeted as US lawmakers move to close loopholes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin have introduced the bipartisan H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act to curb fraud, protect U.S. and foreign workers, and boost transparency. The bill proposes stricter wage and recruitment rules, limits on visa extensions, and prioritization of highly educated STEM workers in visa allocations. <\/p>\n<p>The H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act aims to address the fraud and abuse in the US immigration system, protect American workers and visa holders, and improve transparency in the foreign worker recruitment process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin have introduced the bipartisan H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act to curb fraud, protect U.S. and foreign workers, and boost transparency. The bill proposes stricter wage and recruitment rules, limits on visa extensions, and prioritization of highly educated STEM workers in visa allocations. The H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act aims to address the fraud and abuse in the US immigration system, protect American workers and visa holders, and improve transparency in the foreign worker recruitment process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}